US Patent Issued to City University of Hong Kong on April 7 for "Medical implant with controllable electro-mechanical interactions at a material/bacteria interface" (Chinese, Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,594,362, issued on April 7, was assigned to City University of Hong Kong (Hong Kong, Hong Kong).

"Medical implant with controllable electro-mechanical interactions at a material/bacteria interface" was invented by Guomin Wang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Paul Kim Ho Chu (Hong Kong, Hong Kong), Kaiwei Tang (Hong Kong, Hong Kong) and Zheyi Meng (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An antibacterial implantable medical device or medical material. The surface of an implantable medical device or medical material has a titanium coating formed thereon. Titanium nitride nanowires are formed that extend from the titanium coating at a selected angle...